Gabment corneb-tttbning and edge-creasing machine



A. M. ZIMMERMAN.

GARMENT CORNER TURNING AND EDGE CREASING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21. 191a.

Patented Aug. 19, 1919 AMOS M. ZIMIMERMAN, OF AKRON, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT CORNER-TURNING AND EDGE-CREASING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 19, 1919.

Application filed September 21, 1918. Serial No. 255,204.

able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in corner turning and edge creasing machine, the object being to provide simple and convenient means for forming perfect and sharp corners in garments or parts of garments, such as pocket flaps, end of sleeve etc., and for creasing the edges of the same, and it consists in the parts and combination of parts as will be more fully explained and polnted out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure '1 is a view in side elevation of myimprovement and Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

.3 represents an upright frame having integral lugs, or projections 4, the lower one of which carries a set screw 5 for clamping the machine to a work bench 6 as shown in pright frame or member 3 is provided with the forwardly extending bracket 7 which is provided at its outer end with bearings 8 for movable corner turnin finger 9 which is mounted to move vertica ly in said bearings. This finger 9 is provided with a conical or pointed end, and is connected by collar 10 and link 11, with the lever 12 pivoted to frame 3, and connected to a treadle (not shown) by the rod 13.

Adjustably secured by set screw 14 to the top of frame 3 is the arm 15 carrying the stationary corner turning finger 16, which is secured thereto by set screw 17. This finger is also provided with a conical end similar to the end of finger 9, and is located in the vertical plane of the latter so as to cooperate therewith in the formation of a sharp corner at the sewed edge of the garment. The lower finger 9 is capable of a limited vertical movement, and when in its lowered osition as shown in full lines in Fig. 1, there is ample space between the adjacent ends of the two fingers 9 and 16 for the free insertion of the part of garment to be turned and shaped.

The part of the garment to be shaped, such for instance as pocket flaps 18, is stitched inside out, andplaced over one of the fingers preferably the upper one, with the latter engaging the corner as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The lower finger 9 is then raised to enga e and clamp the corner of the article after w ich the latter is reversed or turned fromthe position shown in dotted lines, to

the position shown in full lines, which is the right or outer side of the article.

After both ends of the article have been so treated to produce sharp angular corners, the finger 9 is lowered to release the article and the latter is then placed right side out over the stationary creasing blade 19 secured to bracket 20 projecting from the front face of the uprlght frame 3. This blade is preferably made of spring metal and is thin so as to enter the article without bulging it to any appreciable extent, and after the article has been placed thereon, the creasing clamp 21 is moved from the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to that shown in full lines to engage the material and hold it against the blade 19. Clamp 21 is preferabl made of spring metal and is composed 0 two jaws separated sufliciently to receive the blade 19 between them. The jaws are preferably flared outwardly at their front ends to permit them to pass onto the edge of the article 18 on blade 19, and in the continued movement of the clampin jaws to the operative position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, they are forced outwardly sufficiently to receive the article 18 against which they bear with a yielding pressure.

When the parts are so placed and the article grasped by the operator at both ends and pulled lengthwise one or more times over and down the blade 19 and between the jaws 21, both' end seams and the top edge will be creased and will retain its shape until the crease has been made permanent by ressin This movement of the article on t e bla e and between the clamping jaws also smooths out the lining and puts the article in condition for immediate attachment to the garment to which it is to form a art.

he clamping jaws are ermanently secured to the rocking shat 22 which is journaled in bearing 23 on the upright frame 3. The shaft is provided with a crank 24 which is connected by a rod 25 with a treadle not shown.

With this machine, an operator seated convenient to the foot treadles can first shape the corners and edges of any sewed part of a garment, between the parts 9 and '16, and then crease the edges between the parts 19 and 21;

It is evident that many slight-changes nnght be resorted to in the relative arrangement ofpartsshown and described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.-, Hence"I would have it understood that Ido -not wish to c onfine myself to two corner turning fingers caring aframe,

frame and located in the same ried by the plane end to end, means for moving one of said fingers longitudinally toward and away from the other finger, also carried by the frame, connected yielding clamping creasing, jaws adapted to be moved onto on the fixed blade and a fixed creasing blade.

the part of the garment placed H means for moving the said clamping jaws toward and away from the-fixed blade.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WltlgESEfiSiW I /EIDLER, GEO. F. WEIDLER.

AMOS ZIMMERMAN. f 

